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title: It was the evolutional lesson of this latter fact that chiefly occup… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: It was the evolutional lesson of this latter fact that chiefly occupied me while Niimi and his younger brother (who feeds the worms) were kindly explaining the methods of the industry. Who acts: race, latter fact, younger brother, Niimi. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of I
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 45

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It was the evolutional lesson of this latter fact that chiefly occupied me while Niimi and his younger brother (who feeds the worms) were kindly explaining the methods of the industry.

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**Who acts:** race, latter fact, younger brother, Niimi · **What happens:** be, occupy, feed, explain · **To what, where:** evolutional lesson, me, worms, methods

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This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (race, latter fact, younger brother, Niimi), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg8128:4:45
# text = It was the evolutional lesson of this latter fact that chiefly occupied me while Niimi and his younger brother (who feeds the worms) were kindly explaining the methods of the industry.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	evolutional	evolutional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	nsubj	_	_
8	latter	latter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	chiefly	chiefly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	occupied	occupy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
15	Niimi	Niimi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	amod	_	_
19	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
20	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	feeds	feed	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	worms	worm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
26	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	explaining	explain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	advcl	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	methods	method	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	industry	industry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | race | the evolutional lesson |  |  |  | of latter fact  this | tree rules |
| 2 | **occupy** | past | latter fact  this *not said here* | me |  |  |  | chiefly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer |
| 3 | **feed** | present | Niimi's younger brother |  | the worms |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worm=Recipient |
| 4 | **explain** *speech: assert* | past · progressive | Niimi and Niimi's younger brother | the methods of the industry |  |  |  | kindly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent method=Topic |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Project Gutenberg book 8128 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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